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In recent experience with our HC system through a family member with significant HC needs I agree with MPorter toward integrated services. All of us, including physicians, have to realize the pot with finances HC globally is limited. The limit in the U.S. has not yet become as visible as in other countries for demographic and macroeconomic reasons. Societies and physicians can either create more integrated HC systems which are more productive to thereby serve more people with the same resources, or, continue to experience the cost escalation inherent in the current system due to the specialist island approach. The appeal to physicians is to appeal to their professional desire to help more people, to be more confident in their diagnoses, thereby also leading to reduced malpractice issues and expenditures, and, to provide new competitive services to their patients. The use of an integrated service approach will provide competitive advantage for medical practices employing this approach. The use of database technology to study relationships and to determine diagnoses and root causes will prove to be a powerful aid to the integrated physician team. The power to increase impact on global healthcare with such an integrated and systematic data managed approach should appeal to physicians. The ability to learn much faster about conditions and relationships to other bodily functions, parameters and conditions should be hugely popular, at least to newer physicians. This will spawn a new industry creating human health problem solutions and enable new medical approaches to problems.

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[…] Porter said improving quality is the best way to contain costs. For example, if patients quit taking their diabetes drugs because of co-pays, it ends up costing more in the long run. He has worked with the European countries that have already fixed the insurance problem, but they still have the delivery system problems. Here is an interesting article for further reading about Porter’s perspective. […]

[…] areas to change their operations as well.  Maybe we’re moving to the Porter model of health care, where (real) competition reigns, care is delivered in patient-focused practice groups, and smaller […]

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